Smokers on board.

Re: Teabags

Can't quote chapter and verse, but I thought there had been an upsurge in lip and gum cancers where use of "teabags" is prevalent?

I used to smoke, but SWMBO said that it was either fags or her. If I knew then, what I know now............./forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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Unfortunately there are a lot of people who just grin and bear it .. or do'nt visit pubs because of this problem. Commonsense says that people's right to breathe fresh air supercedes the right of the minority to pollute it! However that is not what happens because of an inconsiderate minority.

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Why is it whenever I light a cigarette on board and its been relatively calm for 5 mins, I take my first drag and then something happens which ends up in cig getting chucked overboard. I think people take joy in asking someone thats just lit up to do the head sail trim through a tack! Its impossible to do the 2 at once. Also whenever I am racing and sat on the rail and manage to light a cigarette there is always one freak wave that insists on crashing over me when my back is turned (usually trying to light cigarette out of the wind) and after one satisfying puff its soggy to the end and is condemned to the deep along with the "tacking" cigarette.....

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Personally I don't think the regulations proposed are going far enough in terms of maintaining clean air for those of us of clean mind and body, and church-going manners. I believe that in addition to banning smoking in public places it should also be illegal to eat anything which leaves garlic on the breath and anything which causes people to f**t.

This is particularly true of confined spaces such as the interior of a boat. Perhaps the regulations could also be extended to ensure that no-one may visit a boat if they don't shower at least once a day ...

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Re: Teabags

You're perhaps more correct than you'd know... The "can't quote chapter and verse" goes for most people having an opinion on this subject including our beloved government. As far as I know, no conclusive studies have yet been presented. Theories about various cancer forms are abundant though.

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Steady on old girl, I've got to eat something you know .. however if you insist I shall perform in the bog and light a match afterwards to get rid of the foul odour, presumably that does'nt count as smoking?

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I'd go along with this. SWMBO has now banned me from eating Bombay Bad Boys as she can detect them on my breath hours later. Perhaps the answer is to take up a pipe?

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Re: Teabags

A bit tongue in cheek it was. Don't worry.

Must say, sewage and sludge conferences doesn't sound so appealing to me... can understand you needed some "teabags" then...



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Less of the "old girl" please - one does have one's illusions.

Have you thought about taking up smoking to inhibit the appetite ?

And as for lighting a match in the heads some of our learned friends on this forum would probably quote that as more dangererous than smoking in the cockpit where the gas locker is at least vented overboard.

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Good point Prag. incidentally, re your previous mention of good church-going manners, both my local Rector and the Vicar of neibouring Christchurch Priory smoke pipes. Dreams of being locked in the Sistine Chapel perhaps . . .

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I agree strongly with banning smoking in confined public places and still felt like this when I smoked. Even as a smoker, there is nothing worse than passive smoking. IMHO

Hi Stella Girl- the trick is to light up everytime you think of doing a job, then have a good think as to whether the job still needs doing after you've finished your smoke. That's what I used to do and you find half the jobs don't really need doing anyway. Also, try smoking rollies- you've then got the task of trying to make one before you can smoke it- that's a good challenge with wet hands. You appreciate the smoke far more after the success constructing it first.

Regards

Alex

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sack the buggers no wonder church attendances are declining

In I Corinthians 6:19-20, the Apostle Paul wrote to Christians, "Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you were bought with a price: Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit which are God's". Much modern evidence shows smoking to be a health hazard to the extend that each package of cigarettes must, by law, bear this message, "Warning: the Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health". Obviously, something dangerous to the health cannot possibly enhance, or build up, the body. Smoking is contrary to healthful practices and acts to weaken or destroy the body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Christians do not own their own bodies their bodies are Christ's, bought and paid for by his death. Christians are not free to use their bodies for pleasure and in any way they choose. They are to glorify God in their bodies and since smoking does not glorify God, smokers are in violation of this precept.

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What about all that incense I had to endure as an RC altar-boy, then? No wonder I went on to smoke, urinate in public places, takes drugs and sail.

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What a credit to society you are with skills like that- they don't need to change the education and exam system. Was it just the incense you had to endure as altar boy. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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I saw a wonderful quotation that stated that a smoking area in a restuarant was as welcome as a peeing area in a swimming pool. Laughed for days!

Regards
Cameron

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